The Santa Barbara Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival (SBSGOAF) is having an Instagram silent auction from October 11-18, with 100% of the proceeds going to @sbmaritimemuseum. The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has been closed for the duration of the pandemic and may not be able to reopen until the end of the year. We wanted to help them out, and we are hoping you will support our efforts. 12 amazing professional artists are transforming wood fish into beautiful original art for you to bid on!

Makers Market is the best outdoor market that Santa Barbara has to offer. Meet the artisans in person. This market offers unique one of a kind items in an outdoor European style setting.

The Preston Morton Collection, which forms the core of American art at SBMA, was gifted in 1961 upon the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Museum’s founding. In so doing, Preston Morton ensured that SBMA could boast one of the most comprehensive overviews of American art from the 18th to the mid-20th century among mid-sized institutions. The timing of the gift was significant, representing a corrective to the European bias of midcentury canonical modernism and a proud reassertion of home-grown American art.

This selection of small format paintings is a reminder of the breadth of the Museum’s holdings in this area. Oil and brush conjure the illusion of near and far persuasively, from the close perspective of still life, to the life-size proportions of bust portraiture, to sublime expanses of land and sky. Whether within hand’s reach or at an immeasurable distance, both types of visual experience are captured within the confines of a canvas no more than 15 inches in diameter.

Artists represented include William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Eakins, Walter Gay, George Inness, George Luks, Jervis McEntee, John Frederick Peto, Levi Wells Prentice, Edward Henry Potthast.

Image: William Merritt Chase, "Children on the Beach" (detail), 1894. Oil on board. SBMA, Bequest of Margaret Mallory.

Peace of Mind Walk - virtual event
Thursday, September 10 to Saturday, October 10, 2020

Tune into Solutions News on Friday, September 11th at 5pm on KZSB 1290am to listen to our show with Riane Eisler, a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Shows are also converted to podcasts for later listening on solutionsnews.org all podcast streaming services.

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Mindfulness Meditation for Lawyers with Attorney Arnold Jaffe

Coastal Cleanup Month- Let's clean up our neighborhoods every Saturday in September from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm!

As many of you know, due to current circumstances, the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award event honoring Paul Stamets & Louie Schwartzberg, originally scheduled for March 29 at the Lobero Theatre, has been postponed until September 13, 2020.
But good news! Paul Stamets & Louie Schwartzberg have made their amazing Fantastic Fungi film available in digital format much earlier than planned for home viewing, and will have a special online showing of the film (small rental viewing fee) with a live Q&A session following with both Paul & Louie on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Please share!
A chance to gather as a united global mycelium network from the comfort and safety of our homes.

All tickets for the original March 29 performance will be honored for the rescheduled show at the Lobero Theatre on Sunday, September 13.

If you can’t make the rescheduled date, you can request a refund by contacting the Lobero Theatre Box Office at 805.963.0761 or by emailing boxoffice@lobero.org Monday–Friday 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday noon–5 PM.

Refunds will be available until Friday, July 17 at 5 PM. Many of you have generously expressed your support and concern by seeking to forego your ticket refund. If you are in a financial position to do so, we greatly appreciate these offers. Please let the box office staff know that you’ll be donating your ticket to support the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network celebrates their Second Annual Eco Hero Award honoring visionary mycologist Paul Stamets, and award-winning cinematographer, Louie Schwartzberg.

The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award honors those who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for thirty or more years, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale.

Both Paul Stamets & Louie Schwartzberg will be in attendance to receive the Eco Hero Award, and will share their experiences – what inspired them, how they made their projects happen, and what challenges they faced along the way, with time for the audience to ask questions.

Film clips from their collaboration on joint projects, including the amazing Fantastic Fungi film will be shown. A special treat for the community will be beautiful time-lapse moving photography of nature’s splendor on the outdoor wall of the Lobero Theatre, that Louie Schwartzberg also showed to audiences on the walls of the Vatican in Rome a few years ago. A reception for all ticket holders follows the evening talk.

Paul Stamets is an award-winning author, researcher, and renowned speaker, sharing with the public the unusual and profound connection between humans and mushrooms. He is an entrepreneur and founder of Fungi Perfecti, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company, and has authored many books including, Mycelium Running–How Mushrooms Can Help Heal the World, and Fantastic Fungi, written in collaboration with the Fantastic Fungi film.

Louie Schwartzberg is an American director, producer, and cinematographer recognized as a pioneer in high-end time-lapse cinematography, and visual artist known for breaking down barriers of perception and taking viewers on journeys of time and scale. For more than forty years his passion has been telling stories through film that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, most recently with the conscious shifting film, Fantastic Fungi, where once again, he makes the invisible visible for his audiences.

Discover the endless possibilities of image making by creating a composition in black and white of cut, rearranged, and rejoined circles and triangles, inspired by artist Nathalie Provosty’s "Council, Untitled (16-38)."

View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection

Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this virtual workshop, led by SBMA Teaching Artists via Zoom. On the second Sunday of each month participants explore a different medium, including clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, and paper. All projects are inspired by works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection or special exhibitions. Materials needed for each activity are posted in advance here. Registration is limited to 24 participants for each event.

Ticket Cost:
Virtual Experience via Zoom: FREE

Mindful Heart Programs presents: Healing and self-care in Mindfulness, Compassion and Nature Connection with Michael Kearney, MD and Radhule Weininger, PhD

Join us on the second Monday of each month to learn about the mystical poetry of Jalal al Din Rumi. Led by Dr. Fariba Enteshari, this webinar is for people who want to understand the language behind Rumi’s poetry.

A Mother Son Story - Meet and Chat with a Founding Member of Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network. PFLAG Santa Barbara and Santa Maria virtual Zoom meeting - support is always available.